Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Export-Import Bank. As the situation ran toward disaster, Grady lumbered persistently between the stiff-necked British and the sagging iron cot of Iran's Premier Mossadeq. "He loves me," said Grady. To all who would listen, he complained that Washington had let him down. The Harriman mission was the final affront which Harriman compounded by refusing to let him see cables from Washington on the ground that they were "too secret." ¶ Loy Henderson, 59, Ambassador to India since 1948, to replace Grady in Iran. One of State's ablest career diplomats, Henderson was the best...
...five months, Prime Minister Sidney G. Holland, leader of the New Zealand National (Conservative) Party, bitterly fought the Communist-led Waterside Workers Union, whose repeated strikes tied up the country's vital export trade. Invoking wartime emergency regulations, Holland declared the union illegal, sponsored a rival union, on rare occasions denied the dockers the right of assembly, free speech or publication. When the striking dockers finally gave in (TIME, July 16), Holland decided that New Zealand should have an opportunity to say it approved of his tough methods. He called for a general election...
...popular printmakers, the Japanese have long been tops. In the 18th and 19th Centuries the genre was dominated by four masters: Kiyonga, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro. Their color prints made from wood blocks sold for a few cents each, were sometimes used to wrap tea for export. They greatly influenced such modern European painters as Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh. Now the wind blows the other way, and many Japanese prints show the influence of European art. Two of the postwar examples on the opposite page could only have been created through a meeting of East and West...
...slowdown strike against Tito's collective farms and Tito's forced deliveries of grains to the state. The peasants had harvested the grain last month on schedule. Yugoslavia's breadbasket was full; for the first time in years, the government prepared to offer wheat for export at the annual Zagreb Fair in September. But farmers were threshing only a fraction of it. On the collective farms (which cultivate 25% of Yugoslavia's farm land-the richest 25%), the peasants alibied that the threshing machines had broken down. Their three-year hitches on the collectives would...
...fully alive," he said, "to the need to control the export of strategic goods . . . Our embargo list covers this field . . . Why, our American friends sometimes ask, do we not prohibit all ... exports? The answer is clear enough...